Florida - Cedar Key State Museum

Florida - Cedar Key State Museum
Cedar Key has had its ups and downs. It was a bustling community in the 19th century and an important Confederate port during the Ciil War

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Many small museums owe their existence to the energy and enthusiasm of just one indiidual, and this is an example. Much of the material here was assembled by the late Saint Clair Whitman, a dedicated naturalist, collector, and former resident of Cedar Key. Along with artifacts dating from 6,000 B.C. to the colonial period, the museum houses a display of late 19th century glassware, exhibits that chart local history, and Mr. Whitman’s extensie collection of seashells.

Cedar Key has had its ups and downs. It was a bustling community in the 19th century and an important Confederate port during the Ciil War. The lumbering industry boomed for a brief period, as did shipbuilding and associated actiities. Today this is a quiet town to explore.

The museum documents the lumbering area in particular with an excellent collection of photographs and tools. Also on view: mementos of the fishing, oystering, and sponge industries, and the brushes and brooms o a palm fiber industry. The latter enterprise was swept away by the adent of plastics. Open year-round. Admission charged.

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